| | | | To stunt or not to stunt : lesson 2-The stoppie! |  Written: 27/04/2007 : 10:40. Read 3771 times (10/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | A stoppie looks like a front wheel wheelie, but it isn’t. There are completely different forces that enable a stoppie than a wheelie. Whilst a wheelie is extreme acceleration a stoppie is extreme deceleration. Good balance is even more important whilst doing stoppies than doing wheelies.
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A stoppie is dangerous because you are not braking efficiently. You can half loop over the handlebars and get crushed by the bike, but unless your name is Craig Jones this will happen at much lower and safer speeds than a wheelie. You could get hit from behind and if your balance is out of tune you could easily drop your bike to its side after landing the rear wheel. Much safer than a wheelie, but some argue that stoppies are more difficult to master.
Technique 1: Clutch in-Squeeze the front brake as hard as you can with two or more fingers depending on bike and how powerful your brakes are. If the front tyre is warm enough your rear wheel will lift. If not you will just slide out of control. Why did it stoppie? You overwhelmed the front suspension and ran out of travel forcing the rear end to try to come forward.
Technique 2: Accelerate slightly just before grabbing the front brake/engaging the clutch to gain forward movement when the rear suspension decompresses. Push your body forward at the same time and the stoppie will be sky high! Why did it stoppie? When the rear suspension returns from being compressed it helps pushing weight forward whilst the braking at the same time overwhelms the front suspension and the rear wants to come forward.
Technique 3: Accelerate up to 30-40 mph and grab a handful of front brake until the rear wheel is up in the air. Engage the clutch at the same time as the front brake. Use your balance, small corrections to the force on the front brake and corrections to the handlebars to roll forwards in a straight line. This is called a rolling stoppie. Why did it stoppie? Suspension overwhelmed. You can roll because you control the appliance of front brake to allow the wheel and suspension to stop-go-stop-go.
Craig Jones has perfected his stoppie skills and he possesses two world records for performing the longest stoppies. If you have ice in your stomach and big balls you can squeeze that front brake as hard as you dare at speeds exceeding 130mph and then roll on the momentum until coming to a complete stop (O'Rylien notice : Remember Sete Gibernau, MotoGP Catalunya 2006...) ...
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